What Muzzleloading Stuff Did You Do Today?

[WALT53]

I do not. He has a lathe that we did it on. I think that's about the only way I know of to get the hole drilled perfectly straight.

Yuppers I think you are 100% correct there .

 

[bajabuc]

sanding...gouging...chisel work...and trying my luck at photos
How about that...only took 45 minutes.

 

[olskool]

I like the color. What stain did you use? The rest of it looks good too by the way.

on the wood I had to take off a ton of wood! I sanded to 220 then I stained the walnut with fiebing's leather dye in medium brown, it turned the stock an ugly orange, then I put varathane dark walnut stain on top. then 6 coats of chambers original oil,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[RocketMan58]

I "bought" nothing but after an unplanned 7 year hiatus from Muzzle loading , I went digging in my gun room for my little Traditions Crockett 32 rifle to maybe get it out to the range this week. Turns out it was a bigger task than I expected but I finally found the gun in a dark corner of one of my less accessible safes. It was a good acquisition day though as during the hunt, I found a very clean 45 cal Pedersoli Kentucky rifle cased up in a dusty corner of the room. Funny thing is I have ZERO recollection of where or when I obtained it! No pics of the Kentucky rifle today but here is one of the Crockett (kit gun) which was the last muzzle loading purchase from back when I retired in 2017.

 

[2001guns]

That's neat. The land where we have our range was just sold so until we can find something else I will have to go to a local public range. I looked at the web site and they say you have to bring your own target stands. Must be wood or plastic and not metal. That gives me some ideas.

If you are gonna haul it much you may want to make the frame out of 2X4s rather than 4X4s so it won't be so heavy. The board is 3/4 pressure treated plywood. It could be 1/2 inch. Wheels could be cut out of a 2X10.
All stainless screws for Florida.

 

[Rebel bull]

Yuppers I think you are 100% correct there .

back in the day before I had my full machine shop what I did was made a jig to slide over the end of the ram rod to guide the drill bit you have to make one for each size of ramrod

 

[longcruise]

sanding...gouging...chisel work...and trying my luck at photosView attachment 369083
How about that...only took 45 minutes.

I think I'm on to your problem so I'll take a shot at it. If this doesn't address the problem, I apologize.

The two problems i encountered across the forums that I participate in have been images too large for the forum software and photos posting sideways or upside down. This forum supports posting large photos as thumbnails but i make it a point to resize them for an easier to view display. I use an app that allows rotating, cropping and resizing photos.

this is the app. It's free but I broke down and paid about $5 a year to eliminate ads.

That screenshot had to be resized. It took less than a minute.

back in the day before I had my full machine shop what I did was made a jig to slide over the end of the ram rod to guide the drill bit you have to make one for each size of ramrod

I've done that to drill holes in the end of dowels. Maybe I could do it for metal range rods. Thanks for the tip. Don't know why I didn't think of that.